Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Yet Pretoria's efforts to get a much bigger role for the African Union in resolving the conflict have faltered since Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma stood down as AU Commission chair and Morocco was readmitted to the body in January 2017 ending a boycott called by the late King Hassan II in 1984 after Polisario's Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was admitted as a full member...

In what is seen as a somewhat Machiavellian move Ramaphosa has appointed his main rival in the ANC leadership election last December Zuma's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma now a senior minister at the Presidency to lead the task group...

There are now three discernible factions: the reformers around Ramaphosa to which the whole economic team belongs; the hardline supporters of former President Jacob Zuma and his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; and the New Premier League those provincial chiefs who have broken away from the Zumas and have their own business and political bases outside the national centres of power...

Trying to force him out with a vote at the National Executive Committee would worsen splits between Ramaphosa supporters and those backing Zuma and his former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who lost the ANC presidential race...

A draft list of names for a 'unity cabinet' is circulating among Ramaphosa's allies and those of Zuma and the defeated ANC presidential candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma...

Baleka Mbete Speaker of the National Parliament who switched sides to back Ramaphosa would be Minister of Women's Affairs; Lindiwe Sisulu Human Settlements Minister who backed Ramaphosa would become Minister for International Relations; Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma defeated by Ramaphosa for the ANC Presidency would get the Social Development portfolio...

The epic struggle between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and current Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for the leadership – some say the soul – of the governing African National Congress will be decided between 16 and 20 December in the Nasrec stadium outside Soweto...

Ramaphosa was leading the provincial branch vote by 1 861 provincial branch votes to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's 1 309 as Africa Confidential went to press...

With barely two weeks to go before the crucial African National Congress elective conference on 16-20 December in Johannesburg supporters of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma claim they are leading the race for the ANC presidential nomination and that she will be crowned the party's President...

The battle between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa for the leadership of the African National Congress now centres on the fate of Secretary General Gwede Mantashe who is clinging to his job...